Joshua Land Time Out Nov 17, 2011 3/5

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Sep 21, 2007 3/4

Like the Swedish/Norwegian Kitchen Stories, it's a thoughtful Scandinavian film with a bent sense of humor.

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Marc Mohan Oregonian Sep 21, 2007 A-

Is it a religious allegory? Political statement? Horror film? Perhaps all three, perhaps none.

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Eric Monder Film Journal International Sep 6, 2007

If only all the production elements added up to great movie. Instead, they seem like window dressing on a sill looking out to nowhere.

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Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Sep 3, 2007

Bothersome Man is a stark yet strangely lyrical, multi-layered dirge for the absurdity of human fate in the face of figuratively deadening social conformity, and on the other hand, literal mortality.

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Ken Fox TV Guide Aug 29, 2007 3.5/4

An absurdly funny dystopian allegory that can proudly hold its own next to Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 and Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

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Kam Williams Sly Fox Aug 25, 2007 3/4

A deliberate, thought-provoking, existential meditation on the curse of creating a neverending heaven on Earth.

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Noel Murray AV Club Aug 25, 2007 B+

[A] pitch-black, bone-dry comedy.

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Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Aug 24, 2007 4/5

A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razor-sharp edges, The Bothersome Man unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems.

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Rob Nelson Village Voice Aug 21, 2007

Director Jens Lien mostly favors the clean and bland, succumbing to much of the same pod-person impassivity that the movie purports to critique.

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Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Aug 9, 2007 1.5/4

There are several ways to take this bothersome trifle, none of which are at all resonant.

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Steve Rose Guardian Jun 2, 2007 3/5

It's a delectable premise, rendered with smooth efficiency but we never really get beneath the surface of this shallow parallel reality.

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Wendy Ide The Times (UK) Jun 2, 2007 3/5

This Ikea-furnished existential crisis marks Lien out as a talent to watch for the future.

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David Parkinson Empire Magazine May 25, 2007 4/5

A few flaws but this is visually captivating and psychologically disturbing.

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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune Mar 15, 2007 3/4

Made with formidable assurance, a compelling look, quiet skill and impressive economy.

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Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Jan 8, 2007 3/5

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Nigel Floyd Time Out Oct 28, 2006

Oddball futuristic fun with a serious, if confused, message.

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Martha Fischer Cinematical Sep 23, 2006

A dark, nasty little movie that's never quite as deep or as clever as it imagines itself to be.

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Leslie Felperin Variety May 22, 2006

Delightfully droll.

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